100 Lovers

The first music video "100 Other Lovers" was released on February 3, 2011, and directed by Chloe Rodham.[1]

Devotchka released the music video to "All the Sand in All the Sea" on their official YouTube on February 15, 2011.[2]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	6.4/10[3]
Metacritic	72/100[4]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
The Austin Chronicle	[6]
The A.V. Club	B[7]
Consequence of Sound	B[8]
Los Angeles Times	[9]
Paste	7.8/10[10]
Pitchfork	5.3/10[11]
PopMatters	7/10[12]
Slant Magazine	[13]
Tiny Mix Tapes	[14]

100 Lovers was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 72 based on 18 reviews.[4] At AnyDecentMusic?, the album was given a 6.4 out of 10 based on a critical consensus 17 reviews.[3]

The AllMusic review by James Christopher Monger awarded the album 3.5 stars stating "It's a melting pot to be sure, and the band has a tendency to go heavy on the atmosphere and light on the hooks, but there’s never any doubt that it’s a brew tended over by some awfully talented cooks."[5] At Pitchfork, David Bevan wrote: "100 Lovers, with its interludes, clever sequencing, and the appropriately titled instrumental "Sunshine", feels less like a grouping of songs as it does an entirely different animal altogether."[11] Melanie Haupt of The Austin Chronicle gave a four out of five stars, describing the instrumentation on the album "more lushly realized than ever."[6] At Los Angeles Times, writer Randy Lewis explained: "DeVotchKa creates music that explodes with the desperate passion of someone standing at the end of a pier, or lost in the middle of a desert."[9]

In a review for Paste, critic reviewer Steve LaBate wrote: "DeVotchKa's fifth studio LP, 100 Lovers, begins with a gorgeously moody and cinematic wash of synths, strings and piano seeping forth as if water through a crack in a dam. From beneath this swirl of sound, a steady-marching drumbeat subtly emerges, pressure building slowly at first but then more and more rapidly until, finally, the wall holding back the floodwaters bursts in a majestic symphonic crescendo."[10]

• DeVotchKa:
  • Vocals, guitar: Nick Urata
  • Sousaphone: Jeanie Schroder
  • Drums: Shawn King
  • Piano: Thomas Hagerman
• Strings:
  • Violin 1: Regan Kane
  • Violin 2: Takanori Sugishita
  • Violin 3: Ilya Goldberg
  • Viola 1: Summer Rhodes
  • Viola 2: Lisa Jablonowski
  • Cello 1: Charles Lee
  • Cello 2: Eleanor Wells
• Wind
  • Bandoneon: Evan Orman
  • Tenor/Baritone Saxophone: Dan Sjogren
• Trumpets
  • Chris Barron
  • Derek Banach
  • Jacob Valenzuela
• Percussion
  • Mauro Refosco